Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Recent submissions

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    • The Queensland Cloud Seeding Research Program 

      Tessendorf, Sarah A.; Bruintjes, Roelof T.; Weeks, Courtney; Wilson, James W.; Knight, Charles A.; Roberts, Rita D.; Peter, Justin R.; Collis, Scott; Buseck, Peter R.; Freney, Evelyn; Dixon, Michael; Pocernich, Matthew; Ikeda, Kyoko; Axisa, Duncan; Nelson, Eric; May, Peter T.; Richter, Harald; Piketh, Stuart; Burger, Roelof P.; Wilson, Louise; Siems, Steven T.; Manton, Michael; Stone, Roger C.; Pepler, Acacia; Collins, Don R.; Bringi, V. N.; Thurai, M.; Turner, Lynne; McRae, David (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      onse to extreme water shortages in southeast Queensland, Australia, brought about by reduced rainfall and increasing population, the Queensland government decided to explore the potential for cloud seeding to enhance ...

    • Easing Into Norman: Ed Kessler on the Origins and Growth of the National Severe Storms Laboratory 

      Kessler, Edwin; Cohen, Ariel E.; Corfidi, Stephen F.; Corfidi, Sarah J. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      wing essay is excerpted from conversations with Edwin Kessler, founding director of NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, conducted by Ariel Cohen and Stephen and Sarah Corfidi of the National Weather ...

    • How Well Are We Measuring Snow: The NOAA/FAA/NCAR Winter Precipitation Test Bed 

      Rasmussen, Roy; Baker, Bruce; Kochendorfer, John; Meyers, Tilden; Landolt, Scott; Fischer, Alexandre P.; Black, Jenny; Thériault, Julie M.; Kucera, Paul; Gochis, David; Smith, Craig; Nitu, Rodica; Hall, Mark; Ikeda, Kyoko; Gutmann, Ethan (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      r presents recent efforts to understand the relative accuracies of different instrumentation and gauges with various windshield configurations to measure snowfall. Results from the National Center for Atmospheric Research ...

    • Wind Energy Meteorology: Insight into Wind Properties in the Turbine-Rotor Layer of the Atmosphere from High-Resolution Doppler Lidar 

      Banta, Robert M.; Pichugina, Yelena L.; Kelley, Neil D.; Hardesty, R. Michael; Brewer, W. Alan (American Meteorological Society, 2013)
      g the need for high-quality wind information aloft in the layer occupied by turbine rotors (~30?150 m above ground level) is one of many significant challenges facing the wind energy industry. Without wind measurements at ...

    • Quality Assurance in Atmospheric Modeling 

      Warner, Thomas T. (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      r summarizes a number of best practices associated with the use of numerical models of the atmosphere and is motivated by the rapid growth in the number of model users, who have a range of scientific and technical preparations. ...

    • The Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud-Systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) Experiment: Scientific Basis, New Analysis Tools, and Some First Results 

      Montgomery, Michael T.; Davis, Christopher; Dunkerton, Timothy; Wang, Zhuo; Velden, Christopher; Torn, Ryan; Majumdar, Sharanya J.; Zhang, Fuqing; Smith, Roger K.; Bosart, Lance; Bell, Michael M.; Haase, Jennifer S.; Heymsfield, Andrew; Jensen, Jorgen; Campos, Teresa; Boothe, Mark A. (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      ipal hypotheses of a new model of tropical cyclogenesis, known as the marsupial paradigm, were tested in the context of Atlantic tropical disturbances during the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored Pre-Depression ...

    • Monitoring Air Quality from Space: The Case for the Geostationary Platform 

      Lahoz, W. A.; Peuch, V.-H.; Orphal, J.; Attié, J.-L.; Chance, K.; Liu, X.; Edwards, D.; Elbern, H.; Flaud, J.-M.; Claeyman, M.; Amraoui, L. El (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      ty (AQ) is defined by the atmospheric composition of gases and particulates near the Earth's surface. This composition depends on local emissions of pollutants, chemistry, and transport processes; it is highly variable in ...

    • NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission and Opportunities for Applications Users 

      Brown, Molly E.; Escobar, Vanessa; Moran, Susan; Entekhabi, Dara; O'Neill, Peggy E.; Njoku, Eni G.; Doorn, Brad; Entin, Jared K. (American Meteorological Society, 2013)

    • A Multinational Course on Global Climate Change 

      Nieto Ferreira, Rosana; Herdman, Andrew; Curtis, Scott; Chia, Rosina; Poe, Elmer; Thompson, Robert; Yang, Biwu (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      ultinational course on global climate change was developed by East Carolina University in collaboration with five international universities and the U.S. Department of State. This course was developed to help foster the ...

    • Revolutionizing Climate Modeling with Project Athena: A Multi-Institutional, International Collaboration 

      Kinter, J. L.; Cash, B.; Achuthavarier, D.; Adams, J.; Altshuler, E.; Dirmeyer, P.; Doty, B.; Huang, B.; Jin, E. K.; Marx, L.; Manganello, J.; Stan, C.; Wakefield, T.; Palmer, T.; Hamrud, M.; Jung, T.; Miller, M.; Towers, P.; Wedi, N.; Satoh, M.; Tomita, H.; Kodama, C.; Nasuno, T.; Oouchi, K.; Yamada, Y.; Taniguchi, H.; Andrews, P.; Baer, T.; Ezell, M.; Halloy, C.; John, D.; Loftis, B.; Mohr, R.; Wong, K. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      tance of using dedicated high-end computing resources to enable high spatial resolution in global climate models and advance knowledge of the climate system has been evaluated in an international collaboration called Project ...

    • Single Aircraft Integration of Remote Sensing and In Situ Sampling for the Study of Cloud Microphysics and Dynamics 

      Wang, Zhien; French, Jeffrey; Vali, Gabor; Wechsler, Perry; Haimov, Samuel; Rodi, Alfred; Deng, Min; Leon, Dave; Snider, Jeff; Peng, Liran; Pazmany, Andrew L. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      e a critical component of the Earth's coupled water and energy cycles. Poor understanding of cloud?radiation?dynamics feedbacks results in large uncertainties in forecasting human-induced climate changes. Better understanding ...

    • The Joint Hurricane Test Bed: Its First Decade of Tropical Cyclone Research-To-Operations Activities Reviewed 

      Rappaport, Edward N.; Jiing, Jiann-Gwo; Landsea, Christopher W.; Murillo, Shirley T.; Franklin, James L. (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      Hurricane Testbed (JHT) is reviewed at the completion of its first decade. Views of the program by hurricane forecasters at the National Hurricane Center, the test bed's impact on forecast accuracy, and highlights of the ...

    • An Overview of the 2010 Hazardous Weather Testbed Experimental Forecast Program Spring Experiment 

      Clark, Adam J.; Weiss, Steven J.; Kain, John S.; Jirak, Israel L.; Coniglio, Michael; Melick, Christopher J.; Siewert, Christopher; Sobash, Ryan A.; Marsh, Patrick T.; Dean, Andrew R.; Xue, Ming; Kong, Fanyou; Thomas, Kevin W.; Wang, Yunheng; Brewster, Keith; Gao, Jidong; Wang, Xuguang; Du, Jun; Novak, David R.; Barthold, Faye E.; Bodner, Michael J.; Levit, Jason J.; Entwistle, C. Bruce; Jensen, Tara L.; Correia, James (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) conducts annual spring forecasting experiments organized by the Storm Prediction Center and National Severe Storms Laboratory to test and evaluate emerging scientific concepts and technologies ...

    • Forecast-Based Decision Support for San Francisco International Airport: A NextGen Prototype System That Improves Operations during Summer Stratus Season 

      Reynolds, David W.; Clark, David A.; Wilson, F. Wesley; Cook, Lara (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      mmer, marine stratus encroaches into the approach to San Francisco International Airport (SFO) bringing low ceilings. Low ceilings restrict landings and result in a high number of arrival delays, thus impacting the National ...

    • Documenting Climate Models and Their Simulations 

      Guilyardi, Eric; Balaji, V.; Lawrence, Bryan; Callaghan, Sarah; Deluca, Cecelia; Denvil, Sébastien; Lautenschlager, Michael; Morgan, Mark; Murphy, Sylvia; Taylor, Karl E. (American Meteorological Society, 2012)
      ts of climate models are of increasing and widespread importance. No longer is climate model output of sole interest to climate scientists and researchers in the climate change impacts and adaptation fields. Now nonspecialists ...

    • The Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud-Systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) Field Campaign: Perspectives of Early Career Scientists 

      Evans, Clark; Archambault, Heather M.; Cordeira, Jason M.; Fritz, Cody; Galarneau, Thomas J.; Gjorgjievska, Saska; Griffin, Kyle S.; Johnson, Alexandria; Komaromi, William A.; Monette, Sarah; Muradyan, Paytsar; Murphy, Brian; Riemer, Michael; Sears, John; Stern, Daniel; Tang, Brian; Thompson, Segayle (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      epression Investigation of Cloud-systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) field experiment successfully gathered data from four developing and four decaying/nondeveloping tropical disturbances over the tropical North Atlantic basin ...

    • Using the Amazing atmosphere to Foster Student Learning and Interest in Meteorology 

      Barrett, Bradford S.; Woods, John E. (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      students in active learning, the Oceanography Department at the United States Naval Academy developed a new, not-for-course-credit training activity for its students, the Severe Weather InField Training (SWIFT). In SWIFT, ...

    • Hyperspectral Earth Observation from IASI: Five Years of Accomplishments 

      Hilton, Fiona; Armante, Raymond; August, Thomas; Barnet, Chris; Bouchard, Aurelie; Camy-Peyret, Claude; Capelle, Virginie; Clarisse, Lieven; Clerbaux, Cathy; Coheur, Pierre-Francois; Collard, Andrew; Crevoisier, Cyril; Dufour, Gaelle; Edwards, David; Faijan, Francois; Fourrié, Nadia; Gambacorta, Antonia; Goldberg, Mitchell; Guidard, Vincent; Hurtmans, Daniel; Illingworth, Samuel; Jacquinet-Husson, Nicole; Kerzenmacher, Tobias; Klaes, Dieter; Lavanant, Lydie; Masiello, Guido; Matricardi, Marco; McNally, Anthony; Newman, Stuart; Pavelin, Edward; Payan, Sebastien; Péquignot, Eric; Peyridieu, Sophie; Phulpin, Thierry; Remedios, John; Schlüssel, Peter; Serio, Carmine; Strow, Larrabee; Stubenrauch, Claudia; Taylor, Jonathan; Tobin, David; Wolf, Walter; Zhou, Daniel (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
      red Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) forms the main infrared sounding component of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites's (EUMETSAT's) Meteorological Operation (MetOp)-A ...

    • On Safari in Policy-Land 

      Kiparsky, Michael (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
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    • Fifth Workshop of the International Precipitation Working Group 

      Huffman, George J.; Klepp, Christian (American Meteorological Society, 2011)
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